A review by neuroqueer_af
And Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov

3.0

They say that if you could sum up Russian history in one sentence it would be: "And then it got worse." Whelp, it starts out with a Turkish woman getting beaten to death in the Cossack village that time forgot because she's Turkish/wears trousers/a witch. Then it got worse. Fortunately, that mostly applies to the bleak, bitter realism of e events in the narrative, not the quality of the story itself. That being said, I found the war-related parts of the story to be dry and hard going, hence the three stars.